Flood of Hope as Ozma Sails for Signals from Space
Project Ozma begins at Green Bank as Dr. Frank Drake and a team tune an 85 foot radio telescope to nearby stars with possible planets. They will listen for a month for coded messages from intelligent life, a quest seen as uncertain but potentially groundbreaking.
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AP Science
Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Green Bank
W. Va
Earth
Frank D. Drake
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Ment
Dr. Drake
Oscar Night Takes Center Stage Amid Strike Shadows
Hollywood hosts the 32nd Academy Awards on NBC TV at 9 30 p m CST with a month old actors strike looming but unseen by viewers. Elizabeth Taylor Simone Signoret lead best actress nominees while Paul Muni misses. Charlton Heston predicted winner with James Stewart and Jack Lemmon as threats.
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The
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Simone Signoret
Paul Muni
Charlton Heston
James Stewart
Jack Lemmon
Lemmon
Laurence Harvey
Hugh Griffith
England
George Scott
New York
Thelma Ritter
Shelley Winters
Ed Wynn
Anne Frank
Smith Hickock Sentenced to Death for Clutter Slayings
Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock were sentenced to hang on May 13 for the four 1959 Clutter family murders. A 12 man jury convicted them on four counts of first degree murder and the death penalty was imposed. Bailiffs to move them to Lansing prison after brief motions for new trials were denied.
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Garden City
Kan
Perry Edward Smith
Richard Eugene Hickock
Herbert W. Clutter
Roland Tate
Bilckock
Smith
Tate
Kansas State Penitentiary
Harrison Smith
Hickock
Kansas Supreme Court
Arthur Fleming
Perry Smith
Lansing
Census Enumerator Escapes Air Gun Pellets in Lawrence
Lawrence district census director Bob Haggart reported an enumerator was seated in her car on Winona Avenue when an air gun pellet pierced the door window narrowly missing her face. She suspects youths aiming at birds fired the shot.
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Bob Haggart
Lawrence
Winona Avenue
Haggart
Warmer Weather Expected After Cool Spell In Area
State Forecaster Richard Garrett says a warming trend begins Tuesday with highs in the 60s and mild, dry conditions ahead. Locally temperatures dip to 35 tonight and rise Tuesday, while the Kaw River continues to fall from 16 feet 4 inches to near normal by next weekend, aiding delayed field work.
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Richard Garrett
Kaw
Bista Club Reopens Under Original Management
The Bista Club resumes operation with the original management team. Advertises Mexican foods and related offerings to attract patrons.
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Bista Club
Orig
Mexican Foods Adv
30000 Acres Inundated In Illinois Area
Flood fight along the Mississippi intensifies as a levee break near Meyer Illinois floods 30000 acres of cropland. National Guardsmen students and volunteers work around the clock while Missouri convicts and guards reinforce sandbag defenses across the region.
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Senate votes down desegregation amendment to civil rights bill
The Senate rejected the Eisenhower administration plan to declare the Supreme Court order on school desegregation as the supreme law of the land. The roll call was 61 to 36, shelving the bitterly fought proposal.
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Washington
The
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Supreme Court
Clergyman and Wife Die in Camp Hill Plane Crash
Rev Dr William H Alexander 45 a former U.S. Senate candidate and Republican Party chaplain along with his wife Mary Louise 36 and pilot M S Shuman died when a light Aero Commander crashed in a parking lot near Camp Hill Pennsylvania. The group was en route to Hershey for a school administrators conference. Shuman was cleared for landing seven minutes before the storm. Alexander had served as a wartime correspondent and was close to President Eisenhower. He leaves two sons and two daughters. Mary Louise Rowsey Alexander previously lived in Lawrence Kansas and was KU alumna.
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Enid
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Harrisburg-York
Oklahoman
Charlise
Denver
Weather Improves Sparks Lawrence House and Car Sales
Improved weather boosts Lawrence area sales with banks and real estate firms reporting a sharp rise in both new and used car sales and housing activity. Dealers remain cautious about inventory but expect continued demand while builders anticipate more construction as market sentiment turns optimistic.
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Lawrence
Savings and Loan
Tennessee Head Dies at 90 in Knoxville
Dr. James D. Hoskins, 90, former president of the University of Tennessee from 1934 to 1945, died Sunday in Knoxville, Tenn., from pneumonia.
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Knoxville, Tenn
James D. Hoskins
University of Tennessee
Violence Flares Across Cape Town and South Africa
The report details clashes as police and troops crackdown on a nonwhite work boycott in Cape Town, with house-to-house raids, shootings in Nyanga and Claremont, and deaths and injuries across several townships. It notes major unrest nationwide, the stay-at-home drive, and rising strength of groups like the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress.
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South Africa
Nyanga
Durban
Claremont
Chamber of Commerce
Cato Manor
Pan Africanist Congress
African National Congress
Nieder's World Mark Saved By Not Traveling Too Far
Nieder explains his 65-7 shot put at the Texas Relays would not have been a record if it had traveled 14 inches farther. He plans to relax before Olympic trials, aiming to win the Games, and will compete at the Kansas Relays after returning to California.
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Nieder
Bill Nieder
Texas
San Francisco
California
Kansas
Lawrence
Bill
Jays
Texas Christian
Forth Worth
Parry O’brien
Dallas Long
Dave Davis
See Gene Doane for all your in surance needs
Adv.. Local ad copy promotes Gene Doane offering insurance services with contact number VI 3-3011.
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Gene Doane
Vote Workers Optimistic On Election Eve For School Bond
School officials and citizens groups press for passage of a $700 000 bond to fund a school expansion as good weather and high turnout expected Tuesday. Polls open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 10 city polling places with strong endorsements from J. J. Wilson and Robert Charlton.
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Board of Education
J. J. Wilson
Robert Charlton
Citizens’ Committee For Schools
Weather forecast for Northeast Kansas stays fair and warm
The forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions in Northeast Kansas with tonight cooler and a low around 35. Tuesday will be fair and warmer with a high in the lower 60s. Temperature readings show 64 at 4 p.m. and 64 high yesterday, 38 low.
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Kansas
Five day Kansas forecast with temperature contrasts
Temperatures Tuesday through Saturday average near normal in the east and 4 to 8 degrees above normal in the west. Cooler Friday or Saturday with minor day to day changes. Normal highs near 60 in the north and mid 60s in the south, lows around 30 northwest to lower 40s southeast. Precipitation expected at about a quarter inch or less, mainly late in the week.
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